Latino Studies at Northwestern University

If you plan to study latino studies, take a look at what Northwestern University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Northwestern is located in Evanston, Illinois and approximately 22,603 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Latino Studies section at the bottom of this page.

Northwestern Latino Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Latino Studies

Northwestern Latino Studies Rankings

The latino studies major at Northwestern is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Latino Studies. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Latino Studies Student Demographics at Northwestern

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the latino studies majors at Northwestern University.

Northwestern Latino Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of latino studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical latino studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 23% men. So male students are more repesented at Northwestern since its program graduates 27% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 6% more racial-ethnic minorities in its latino studies bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's in latino studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Asian-American Studies
• Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, & Group Studies, Other
• Women’s Studies
• African American Studies

Careers That Latino Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in latino studies can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Northwestern University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	450	$74,010

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Madcoverboy at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.